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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW.

Judge I. NJ Cooley, of Chicago, who
is spoken of as likely to be one of the
commissioners under the Interstate Com
merce ill, speaks of tue measure as
follows:
[ do not believe that rates in general
will be much affected, but they will
probably be better maintained than they
are now, aud if they are they will be
more equal as between large and small
shippers. The long and short haul clause
will make necessary an equalization In
some cases which at competing points
will raise existing rates; bu; | don't as
yet see reason to think that those cases
will be either numerous or very serious.
The equalization which the law will com.
pei ought in some cases to have been
made BY the voluntary action of the roads,
acting in cooperation. Traffic arrange
ments between the roads must now assume
new FORMS With the abolition of pooling
some portion OF the existing machinery
devised for the preservation of rates may
be dispensed With, but some common
agency at the leading railroad centers,
whose business it shall be to preserve
friendly relations between the roads and
hold them to the rules of fair dealing as
between themselves, may be as important
as ever, and the statistics which are now
collected for the general use of the mana
gers will be as useful as ever. But to
what extent existing machinery of man
agement is to be modified no one can yet
say; it must be determined gradually and
xperimentally.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
HUSTISFORD.

Myron Randall has sod his farm of
1000 acres and stock to Charles Echer;
price $1,000.
A donation social is talked of in the
near future for the benefit of the Rev. ID.
0. Sanborn.
Will Downing, of Juneau, was down
last Saturday night to give the band boys
lesson in blowing.
Barber Randall writes home from
Florida that be is getting quite strong
again, and has disposed of his crop of
oranges at good prices.
Prof. Bush, the horse-trainer, had good
success in getting up class in this town.
He had about thirty scholars and gave
good satisfaction. Some of the boys
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
TO CALIFORNIA

Tuesday of next week y party OF JefIer-
son county tourists will start on trip to
California going by the Southern Pacific
route and returning by the Union Pacific.
The excursionists will look over The Los
Angeles country ard take in san
Francisco, Sacramento anI other points.
Among those booked for the journey are
Geo. @. Mansfield, of .Johnson's Greek,
Frank Stoppenbach, OF Jefferson. Mr..
and Mrs. r. Thomas and Mr.. and Mrs.
r. Fargo, of Lake Mills, with others.
DIR. Seeber, formerly of Waterloo, and
now a resident of California, will escort
the party. Bon voyage to the jolly
crowd.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
The School Suffrage Law.

Following is the law passed by our last
legislature to confer upon women the
right to vote upon school matters which
was voted upon the last election and has
now become law:
An act relating to the exercise of the
right OF suffrage by women upon school
matters.
The people of the state of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section l. Every woman who is a citi
zen OF this state of the age of twenty one
years or upwards, except paupers, per-
sons under guardianship and persons
otherwise excluded by Sec. 2 Art. 8, of
the constitution of Wisconsin, who has
resided within the state one year and in
the election distict where she offers to
vote ten days next proceeding any cleo
ton pertaining to school matters shall
have right to vote at such election.
An election district" is portion of a
city or town or of a ward in the city in
which the voters all vote at one voting
place. And all our election laws provide
ton district where they offer their vote
An t'election pertaining to school mat
ters' is an election in which any matter
is voted upon which pertains to or inf1u-,
ences in any way the schools of the state.
Such matters would be the election of
state superintendent, county superin-
tendent, and any other officer whose Of
fetal action might effect the schools.
Also such subjects as q change in the ad-
ministration of school affairs or the
appropriation of money or school pur-
poses.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
1. o. G. T.

The following officers Of WATERFOWL
Good Templars lodge were elected at the
last regular meeting: Fl. j. Kuhn, G..
T.; Abbie Norton, V. T.; Mrs 81. J.
Kuhn. r. s.; G. Porter, F. S.; Jennie
Needham, T.; Mrs. D. O. Sanborn, G.. !;
Frank Parr, NJ; Clara Piper, G.; G. w.
Griffith, S.; Hattie Piper, Organist; G.
w. Rundlett, P G. t.; Clara Rose, r.
S.; Nina Mendenhall; Z. S.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
DISSOLUTION NOTICE,

Notice is hereby given that the partnership
lately subsistlng between us. the undersigned,
William G Raue ind Theodore DobbTatz car
rying on business as painters and paper-hang-
ers, On the south side of Main, between Third
and Fourth streets. in the city of WatcItown,
j jefferson county, Wisconsin, under the firm
name of Raue " Dobbratz, was on the 21st day
of January, 1887, dissolved by mutual consent
and that the business in the future will be car
ned on by the said William C. Raue alone and
he will pay and discharge all debts and liabili-
ties and receive all moneys payable to the said
firm. WILLIAM G.. RAUE,
THEODORE 0OBBRATZ.
Dated January Dist, 1887 16
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
think they know all there is to know

think they know all there is to know
about "hoss" now.
Thomas Baker sold twelve COWS to
John Roberts last week; price $25 each.
S. B. and S. A. Jones delivered their
fat sheep to Day Bros. last Tuesday at
4 cents per pound.
George Killenbentz shipped carload
of hogs from Woodland last Monday.
Amos Butler, of Dakota, was around
last week shaking hands with old-time
friends. FARMER.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02

boring county will be joined to Jefferson
county in making up a senatorial dstric
or Jefferson will be divided and portion
of her territory allotted to make up several
senatorial districts. Dodge county has
the required population for three Assem-
blymen one less than at present, and one
senator and she will no doubt be thus
apportioled.
JEFFERSON COUNTY AGRlCUL TU2AL SOCIETY
The annual meeting of the Jefferson
County Agricultural Society was held at
Jefferson on the Oath ult and the officers
of last year were reelected as folows:
John Whittet, of Sumner, president;
0. s, Cornish, of Fort Atkinson. vice.
president; Chas Bullwlnkel, of JEFF
ferson, secretary: Geo. j. Kispert, of
Jefferson, treasurer.
The following were elected to serve on
the Executive committee: Chas. 5.
Cartwright, OF Sullivan; d. S. Damuth,
If KosbkoEong; David Gardner, of Mil
lord, Hiram Ward, OF Oakland; A. Ii.
Wegeman. CT Lake Mills.
Among the directors elected were: f.
@ Lehman, town of Watertown; S. G
Roper, J. III. Sleeper, VIM Schultz and
rs. Howell, Watertown city.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
SECOND HAND STORE.

For second hand goods of all kinds call on
Henry O. Mayer, west side.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02
WatertoWn lyEarkcG

Corrected weekly by VIM. Buchhei.,
Commission Merchant, Third Street,
Watertown.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02

Mail closes at the WATERFOWL Post Office as
follows:
A. NJ
East.S:45 Madison.-.S:45 South......10:20
West ':..-."o' oc
P NJ
East1:00 North .2:30--9.15 West..9:l5
Madison .''so' so
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-02-02

Trains leave for Madison $50 A. NJ. and 7:Oc
Pm.
Trains arrive from Madison $50 A. NJ and 4:
~ P. NJ.
Trains Nos. 8 2, 8, 4. 81 and SO run daily be-
ween ;hleago and Minneapolis.
Alltrainsrun daily except Madison linetrains.
5 and run daily except Sunday between
Chicago and La Crosse.
Watertown passenger train leaves for M1lwau-
Kee at a. N. and arrives from Milwaukee at
p. m Sundays excepted.
j. H. SLEEPER, Agent.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DR.. Holmes characterizes West
minister Abbey as "great museum of
gigantic funeral bric-a-brac.
The Var Cry, the organ of the
Salvation Army, is published in eight
different laguages, and has weekly
circulation of 1876, 900 copies.
Queen Marguerite, of Italy, took
pity on the reporters who were puz-
zling over the toilets at recent court
ball at Rome, and dictated to them
description of the handsomest dresses.
She wound up with the injunction not
to forget her necklace of pearls, saying,
"for these are the things that especially
interest your lady readers"
Mr.. Ezekiel, the famous American
sculptor, has just sent to Baltimorean
life-size bust of the Able Liszt. 1t is
said to be the only one of the great mu-
sician taken wholly from life, is in
bronze, and was cast in Berlin. 1t was
primarily for this work that Sculptor
Ezekiel was decorated by the Kings of
Belgium and Italy. Chicago Tribune.
Wilson Waddingham, of New Ha-
ven, Conn, recently purchased the An
tonic Ortiz grant of 1863, acres of
land situated in San Miguel County,
N. M. Mr.. Waddingham is said to be
the largest landed proprietor in the
world. He owns in fee about 1900, 900
acres, about 100000 acres more than
are claimed by the Duke of Westmin-
ster
Mrs. Blanche Hazard, the widow
of Samuel Hazard. author of "Pen
Pictures of Cuba, is making a living
for herself and two boys by her art in
painting on china. She recently COM
pleted whole dinner set for the wife
of one of the foreign ministers, and she
now has a half-a-dozen orders from
Washington for sets of plates. Her
home is in Germantown, Chicago
Herald.
Mr.. Alfred Sully, who has recently
| acquired such sudden prominence in
the railroad world, wrote volume of
poems in his youth. A correspondent
wrote the fact to his paper, with this
startling result: "Mr. Sully is wild
over who sometimes flirts with the
muse" The types brought it out in
this way: "Mr. Sully is widower
who sometimes flirts with the nurse. "
The Mercantile Library in New
York City is practically owned and
entirely managed by clerks. In order
to vote or hold office member must
be clerk or working on "a salary in
some mercantile office. The library
contains $4,000 volumes, making it
the fifth largest in the country. First
comes the Congressional at Washing
ton, second the Boston Public Library,
third the Harvard University, and
fourth the Astor. Chicago Times.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
Niggardly Husbands.

Among the poor, particularly the
thrifty and industrious poor, says
writer in Harper's, the woman of the
household, be she wife or daughter, has
much more control in dispensing the
daily or weekly wage than women on
a higher social plane; men of Drawn,
when sensibly and kindly, practice a
more generous rule of conjugal part
nership than is usual among men of
brain, though these latter's earnings
are on such scale of plenty that un-
less we look below the surface regula-
tions and equipments OF the house we
fail to discover the false financial rela-
tions that exist between husband and
wife. For wives. as a class, have no
spending money, and are rarely cogni-
zant of their husbands true business
condition. Is this just to the being a
man has promised to honor as well as
TO love?
Women are accused of being
''mean," and any one who has ever
served on collecting committee
knows how, in forming list of pos
sible subscribers, name after name is
omitted with the remark: mo use 60
ing to her, she never gives" or "She
has no money!" and yet the husband
of "she" is invariably man of means
or ample professional income, who
pays extravagant household and per-
sonal bills for his family, usually with
willing good nature. 1t is only when
money is asked for that tightening of
the purse strings instinctively takes
place and the unblushing query is
made: "Why, little woman, what did
you do with the five dollars gave you
last weekP" We have heard such a
question put to beloved wife by a
man whose yearly expenses were at
least $40, 900 and who the next week
gave the same wife valuable diamond
earrings and always encouraged her
to dress extravagantly and live luxuri-
ously,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
A NETWORK OF WIRES.


DtdhhE III obatiotiNS'
There are about 10000 miles of tele-
graph and telephone wires in New
York City. Of this number the West
ern Union Telegraph Company oper-
ates and controls more than 5000
miles 500 miles of which are already
placed in conduits underground. The
same company operates over 1900
miles all told. Its wires, if stretched
in one continuous line, would go
around the globe ne arly eighteen times,
and they would reach from the earth
to the moon and almost back again.
The 20, 900 miles of wire in this city
would make over 1920 parallel lines
from the Battery to Harlem river, and
over double that number from the East
to the North river at the greatest width
of Manhattan Island.
This length of wire weighs compara
lively little. The wires of the Western
Union Company vary in weight from
$50 to $50 pounds per mile. Taking
the smallest-sized wire as basis for
calculation, one ton of metal would
make thirteen and one-third miles OF
wire, while 1000 tons would be suffi.
cient to stretch around the world, with
plenty to spare. The cost of the wires
is about six cents per pound. They
are very durable when stretched
through an open country, lasting from
twenty-five to thirty years. Atmos.
pheric changes affect them but little.
Repairs are chiefly made in towns
where chemical substances are used fol-
manufacturing purposes. the smoke
from the factory chimneys being very
destructive to the metaL-N J. Nal
and Express,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The church at Chigwell, Essex,
England, rendered famous by Dick
ems, in his Barnaby Rudge," has
been restored and enlarged at Il cost of
S25, 900.
There are in Paris ALI girls pro.
vided with school teachers .certifi-
Gates, while during the year there are
only about 100 vacancies occurring in
these posts.
Edward Everett Hale recently told
the students of Cornell University that
the best opportunity for studying hui
man nature was in the occupation of a
schoolmaster.
-Scraping and trampling with the
feet passes among German students as
a sign of applause in the lecture-hall,
curious custom which has just been
abolished at Leipzig by the university
authorities.
The alumni of the University OF
Paris numbered nearly II, 900 Tasty year.
OF these, 3, 1856 were studying law, and
1886 were studying medicine, while
only 95 were studying theology. The
female students numbered 167.
The youthful idea of school has
many illustrations "Where are you
goingP" ITO school," "What do you
90 for - to readP" "No." "To writep'
mo" ITO count?" "No." "What
do you 60 forr' ITO wait for school
to let out"
They have free industrial schools
in Norway, for girls, that do grand
work admirably. Female children from
to 16 years of age, are taught partic-
ularly the domestic industries, and are
to be seen daily in cheerful groups al
work upon all sorts of garments, SUI
pervised by competent teachers of theil
own SEX Golden Rule.
-Protestants in Russia, according
to fresh and official statistics, number
Is, 243, 5S7 persons or Ga. AZ per cent. o.
the whole population; the Catholics
9,621, ,634 or 1897 per cent; those be
longing to other Christian denomina-
tions, 83, 020 or 3 per cent; Jews, $685..
543 or 1.3 per cent; 155 confessing
other religions and $500 making nc
statement of their religious views.
DIR. &C. McCabe writes: "'All hal
the power of Jesus name!' The Meth
odists of the United States in the past
four years have built three churches
every day, with 1856 to spare-or with
in 259 of four per day. This is the net
gain. New churches in new places
Tell 1t at the next meeting of the run
league. Tell it at the next infidel con
vention! And more than that, tell al
the people that united Professionalism il
building new churches at the rate o
ten for every dayW
Zone touch of nature makes tn,
whole world kim" No fewer thar
thirty-one people of position in En-
gland declined to subscribe to tn
Church House on the ground that the
wished to give their money to a fun
for the poor clergy; yet it was found
day or two ago, on examining the list
that not one of them had sent dona
ton to the latter fund. On the othe
hand, fifty-ssven subscribers to tn
Church House, whose contribution
amounted to over f2, ,450, appeared a
doners to the poor clergy fund of n
less a sum than f3,6S0.-PubIic Opi,l
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
One Dollar Per Year.

see crags, or have drawn such bold anu
mastery sketches of the rough charac-
ters who live among them. She writes
like an active, fearless man accus-
toned to every phase of a wild, out-of-
door life. She looks like the most del
icate of fireside-bred women. She is
small, with big eyes and dark-haired.
She does not look like an invalid pre-
cisely, but is evidently far from strong.
She is very simple, natural and straight
forward in conversation, modest to
degree in in spite of an amount of adu-
lation that might have turned any
womans head. Any reference to the
long mystification about her identity
calls out roguish smile, and they say
that when Aldrich was made speech
less with amazement on his first pre-
sentation to her, she merely said: you
know l owed you one for Marjorie
Daw." Her present home is in St.
Louis and she will spend the summer
there. busy with new literary plans.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
THE WIDOW BOOK-AGENT.
The Clever Way in Which Bright Woman
Sold Her Wares,

The latest dodge of the female book
agent is to get room in a fashionable
clearinghouse, pay two weeks rent
in advance, move in her stock of books
and sell them to the boarders without
letting them know who she is. When
asked for reference she brings out
letter from the publisher for whom she
works or his local agent.
A New York clearinghouse keeper
tells how she discovered an agent in a
beautiful widow who was stopping with
her. "On Sunday the widow came in
to the parlor with her arms full of il.
lustrated books of history and portfo-
lios of engravings. She had thought
some of us might like to look over her
collection, she said. and of course we
did not object although l commenced
to think my new lodger was taking a
great deal of pains to please the CON-
parative strangers. looked over some
of them myself and listened to her ex-
plain that they were from a collection
of very dear friend who had asked
her to take them to secondhand store
the next day and sell them.
"All of a sudden it struck me as
quite peculiar that every one of those
books was new, and had been pub
lished recently. Moreover, they were
all published by one man, and that one
man was the gentleman who had sent
me such warm commentator of my
new boarder. l shut up the book Twas
looking at, and began to think and
listen and watch. The widow by this
time was surrounded by dozen of my
gentlemen boarders and three or four
ladies, and was discoursing on the
merits of the books. In ten minutes
she had sold book to every young
man there; simply charmed the money
out of them by the power of her beauty.
She was so glad, she said, to think
that her dear friend would realize at
least a portion of what the books were
worth. Chicago Netcs.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11

"that if had gone up to him bfuster-
ing, and had ordered him out sharply,
he would perhaps have lost his pres
ence of mind and fallen headlong into
the pit, which would have made mat
ters worse. In dealing with men and
with animals, the best thing is to keep
cool; yes, sir, keep cool, and never
lose your self-possession."
This is the cardinal principle of the
''keepers of the Zoo" and in many
other walks of life, it is one of the
chief secrets of ccess.-AleTaader
Wainwright, in Youths Companion.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
HUMOROUS.
What the depositor wants to know
is not that his money is all right, but
that it's all left.-Life.


"A Warning
Full many man, both young and old,
Is sent to his sarcophagus
BY pouring water icy cold
Adown his warm @sophagus.
Journal Of ReconstructiUes.
-Magistrate-"A little difficulty be-
tween ladies, ehP Has the complainant
been swornp" Plaintiffs Lawyer
mot yet" Magistrate-"What is
your age, madamP' The Complainant
Nineteen. Magistrate-"You will
now swear to tell the truth, the whole
truth, etc. ."-Philadetphid Cali.
Young Husband =" Isn't there
something peculiar about the taste of
these onions, my dearP' Young Wife
(anxiously) oh, l hope not, my dear,
took such pains with them. l even
sprinkled them with Jockey Club be-
fore put them to boil, to take away
the unpleasant odor.-M. S. Sum-
An old lady, whose ideas of the
electric current are triflc vague, ac-
costed telegraph-pole climber, as he
sunk his spurs into the wood.
Mister are you goin' upP" "Yes. "
swell, if there's telegraph message
from my son Johnny up there, just
drop it down, will YEP I'm expectin'
of him home. Golden Days.
Tommy "Does your mother al
low you to kiss the nurse girlP" John.
NY 80, Iguess she don't care. Does
yours?n TOMMY don't think she
does. l never asked her, but you'd
died to hear her lay down the law to
pa when she saw him do it one day. an
she lets him do lots O. things she
wouldn't let me. ."-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
IL hear that Smith is contesting
his wife's will," said one Dakota man
to another day or two ago. 81 don'i
know how that may be" replied the
other. "but / am quite sure of one
thing" whats that3" 'Smith never
contested his wife's will while she wa:
alive. He seems to be getting cour.
ageous under his sad affliction.
Dakota Bell.
-Janey, attaining to the delightful
promotion of an evenings ''hair-brush'
ing" with her grownup young auntie:
and their visitor, grew expansive il
the relaxing spirit of the hour, and in
a benevolent burst of confidence inn
parted the intelligence that my nam
ma puts chalk on her face, toow then
grown prudent, added, "wel, just tc
keep her face warm, YOU know, wher
it is cold. ."-Harper's Bdzar.
"A lady had in her employ an excel
lent girl, who had one fault-her face
WIS always grimy. Mrs. X. wishing
to tell her to wash her face without
offending her. at last resorted to STRAIT
egy. "Do you know. Bridget" she re
marked, in a confidential manner
"that if you wash your face every day
in hot soap and water it will make yor
beautiful?' Twill it?" answered tn,
willy Bridget. "Sure, it's a wondel
We never tried it ma'am. ~ Y
| Led0er,